Thoroughly plan your course, including:
Communicate all organizational information upfront and make them asynchronously accessible in a prominent place. This way, you support your students in planning study times, you accommodate to working hours of student jobs and compensate missing classroom norms. This helps to create a study “rhythm” that on-site students might get from attending courses, which is an important factor for effective online teaching and learning (Martin, Ritzhaupt, Kumar & Budhrani, 2019) .
Give complete, exact information (incl. teaching mode) available at the start of the semester concerning: - Course information: meeting days and time for courses with synchronous meetings - ECTS - Teaching staff contact information - Instructional modality, as a way to help students understand how the course is designed - Course description - Learning outcomes / course goals - Prerequisites: „linear algebra“ is too vague. Please list the prerequisites concisely, i.e. in a way that students can check if they need to brush up the prerequisites. You can list UOS or external courses that cover the prerequisites. - Assignments - Learning resources, technology/ tools used readings - Grading scale